This is Aleppo today. For the last 5 years ... The building was used as a prison by ISIS before rebel forces occupied the region. Source: The Guardian When Bashar al-Assad was elected the ...

ALEPPO, Syria — In this city’s forsaken ... The streets below the citadel were full this week of families reunited after years of war, or groups visiting the city for the first time in years.

Standing on a road surrounded by wrecked buildings on a cold, sunny day, Ahmed is pensive, stirred by the harrowing memories from this point eight years ago. “Eight years ago, I was besieged in ...

Syria’s civil war obliterated their neighborhoods ... Their neighborhood of Kallaseh, in obliterated east Aleppo, had been surrounded by the Syrian Army after the government’s months-long ...

The community has been hard hit by emigration during the civil war. Of the approximately 200,000 Christians who lived in Aleppo before 2011, just 30,000 remain in the city, according to community ...

The primary source is the online video that has allowed a widening war to be documented like no ... Military Location Fighting this month in Aleppo reached the doorstep of the city's hilltop ...

Six years into Syria’s bloody civil war, Aleppo – the ... “Save Aleppo, save humanity.” It was reported earlier today (15 December) that, after a ceasefire collapsed on Wednesday, a ...

A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the insurgents led by Salafi Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, – including Al-Qaeda's former Syria branch, Jabhat al-Nusra – ...

The most destructive period of the war in Aleppo lasted from 2012, a year after the protests turned into a war, until al-Assad’s forces captured it in 2016 and ruled it until the fall of ...